Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more

Times are especially bad for dairy farmers across the United States. About 40% of all dairy farms (or 46,000) went out of business over the last 10 years, due to falling milk prices and rising costs. Farmers went from getting $21.70 per hundred po...   read more

Law enforcement officials in the state of Illinois have failed to test as many as 80% of rape kits collected from women who’ve been assaulted since 1995, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.   The human rights group gathered testin...   read more

Census officials must have mixed feelings about this year’s national headcount. On the one hand, more Americans have filled out surveys than during the 2000 Census. On the other hand, more Americans are assaulting U.S. Census Bureau employees than...   read more

Republican Mark Siljander, who represented a Michigan district in Congress during the 1980s, is facing up to 15 years in prison and a fine of half a million dollars for his work helping an Islamic charity deemed a supporter of terrorists.   Afte...   read more

Nearly one-third of all military losses suffered by the United Kingdom in Afghanistan have come in the Sangin district of Helmand Province. Deciding that they have had enough, the British are now planning to pull out of Sangin by the end of this y...   read more

The well that has created the worst oil spill in U.S. history was soon going to be abandoned by BP when the accident on April 20 unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico. The fact that the well had been sealed with concrete for “temporary abandonment” promp...   read more

Following the post-Thanksgiving Day sales rush in 2008 that killed one of its employees on Long Island, NY, Wal-Mart took a number of steps to ensure that such a tragic event did not occur again at one of its stores. The retail giant also created ...   read more

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a plane! It’s … a car? It’s the Terrafugia Transition!   The world’s first flying car, or driving plane, depending on how you look at it, may soon be available for purchase, and at a cost of only $194,000.   Massachus...   read more

What millions of Americans have known for years, the U.S. government just figured out: It pays to buy in bulk.   To cut down on government spending, the Office of Management and Budget announced that federal agencies will now work together when ...   read more

Oil industry lobbyists are decrying a proposed new tax on the industry to pay for the cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico disaster—while at the same time their clients reap huge subsidies from the federal government.   An investigation by The New York...   read more

Teenagers don’t do mornings, a fact that most parents already know. But a study of high school students in Rhode Island found that by starting school a mere 30 minutes later, teenagers were in better moods and more likely to attend class.   The ...   read more

During the financial crisis of 2008, the Department of the Treasury made an outside contractor, Dan Jester, the “point man” on insurance giant AIG, which was teetering towards collapse. Jester’s participation in the decision-making that led to the...   read more

When the state of Georgia ran out of money to pay for an accused individual’s legal defense, a local judge allowed the prosecutor to choose the public defenders who would represent the man facing the death penalty. To make matters worse, the defen...   read more

With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill still at the forefront of environmental consciousness, biologists are concerned about China’s plans to begin the first deep-sea mining in international waters. The Deepwater Horizon accident 5,000 feet below the o...   read more

Scientific modeling by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicates oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill is likely to reach Southern Florida, although scientists predict that by that time the petroleum will probably have broke...   read more

Unlike other hourly employees in California, farmworkers have been unable to collect overtime pay for more than eight hours of work since World War II. But Democrats in the state legislature have approved legislation that would undo the overtime r...   read more